[KLUG Members] Pages that take a mighty long time....

[Bruce Smith]

> >>I've written some pages in PHP that plow through a enourmous pile of
> >>data,  and may take "a long time" to run.  Browser comes back with a "Zero
> >>Sized Reply" or some such nonsense,  I assume it is a time-out etc...  does
> >>anyonehave any clever ideas on how one would go about handling a situation
> >>such as this?  Or maybe I need to off down a diffrent track...
> >Maybe the problem is in /etc/php.ini?  i.e.:
> >max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in
> >seconds
> 
> I use the set_time_limit in each loop,  so the counter for expiring time should
> keep getting reset,  and I'm still protected from an internal loop going crazy.
>  I've tried BIG values and it doesn't seem to effect it,  but I'll nose about
> some more.

Have you tried spitting out a little data to the web page in each loop?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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